Kang’s novels offer an important lens for understanding Korean history and politics, and the grief and strength of the Korean people.
Saito Mariko, received the Yomiuri Prize for Literature, announced the Literature Translation Institute of Korea on Thursday.
Han Kang’s characters have looked squarely at histories of state-sanctioned murder and carry the wounds of those histories.
Han Kang won the Nobel prize, which is worth 11m krona (£809,000), for her “intense poetic prose” within her body of work ...
In March, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss “We Do Not Part,” the Nobel laureate Han Kang’s novel about history ...
SEOUL, Oct. 13 (Yonhap) -- More than 500,000 copies of novels and short stories written by Nobel Prize laureate Han Kang have been sold ... and her most recent work, "We Do Not Part," were the ...
After 10 years as a biennial award for a body of work ... Han Kang. A woman casting a light on Korean patriarchy made for uncomfortable reading There was another problem, too. By the time Han won the ...
In her mid-twenties, Han Kang wrote ... haunted much of her work, from Human Acts (2014) to We Do Not Part (2025). Kyungha is a writer in Seoul, a novelist who, like Kang, published a 2014 book ...
The 2024 Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded to Han Kang, a South Korean author ... She later began writing longer ...
Han Kang became a celebrity last year when ... More broadly, a constant in Kang’s work is the frailty and vulnerability of humanity; her more recent novels The White Book and Greek Lessons ...
But aside from her novels, she has already written short stories ... It is arguably Han Kang's most famous work, for which she won the prestigious Man Booker International Prize in 2016.